Not From Here

Jaafar Issa

You don't feel like you belong here, you go home and don't feel like you belong there either. Congratulations, you're not from here. Join the club.

  1. Modest Fashion Is Not Really Modest, Life After Divorce, & Women Losing Confidence | Zahraa Berro

    3일 전

    Modest Fashion Is Not Really Modest, Life After Divorce, & Women Losing Confidence | Zahraa Berro

    Zahraa Berro is the founder of Zahraa The Label, one of the biggest modest fashion brands in America. She went from making $12 an hour to selling millions in hijabs and modest clothing, becoming one of the most recognized hijabi entrepreneurs and content creators in the Muslim community. Then, at the peak of her success, she stepped away from influencing completely. In this episode, Zahraa opens up about the marriage she knew was over from day one, rebuilding her confidence after divorce as a single mom of two, meeting her husband and marrying someone from outside of her culture within three weeks. We also discuss: * The truth about modest fashion and why most of it isn't actually modest * Life after divorce and rebuilding confidence from zero * Marrying outside her culture and breaking taboos around cross-cultural marriage * Hiring a feminine energy coach and manifesting her husband Sponsors: 🛏️ Detroit Furniture: https://detfurniture.com/ ☕️ Detroit Perk Coffee: https://detroitperk.com/ Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/detroit... ⚖️ Hall Makled: https://www.hallmakled.com/ +1 (313) 788-8888 Connect with Zahraa: https://www.instagram.com/zahraa_hberro/ https://www.youtube.com/@ZahraaBerro Connect with Jaafar: https://www.instagram.com/podnotfromhere/ https://twitter.com/JaafarrIssa https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaafar-issa-8046a419b/v 00:00 - Intro 01:43 - Who is Zahraa Berro? 05:26 - Growing up with high expectations 10:28 - How a Karbala trip changed everything 16:55 - Ads 18:07 - The burdens Allah gives you 21:10 - The viral video that started it all 24:45 - Divorce feels like death 28:52 - Romanticizing life after divorce 39:25 - Why kids don't fix a marriage 45:43 - How Zahraa met her Husband 52:45 - Ads 53:31 - The feminine energy coach 01:07:27 - Why she quit influencing 01:13:06 - What modest fashion gets wrong

    1시간 25분
  2. Born Deaf: "I Taught Myself To Speak By Putting My Hands On People's Throats!"

    6월 22일

    Born Deaf: "I Taught Myself To Speak By Putting My Hands On People's Throats!"

    Sophia was born profoundly deaf in both ears, and almost everyone decided early what she'd never be able to do, from the doctors to the deaf community itself. This episode is what happened when she refused to accept it, starting with a memory from before she could speak a single word that she says she'll never forget. The way she learned to communicate is only the beginning. Sophia has been rejected, written off, and pushed to a place she's never talked about publicly until now, and what she did next is the reason this one is worth your time. Sponsors: 🛏️ Detroit Furniture: https://detfurniture.com/ ☕️ Detroit Perk Coffee: https://detroitperk.com/ Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/detroit... ⚖️ Hall Makled: https://www.hallmakled.com/ +1 (313) 788-8888 Connect with Sophia: https://www.instagram.com/sofitbysophia/ Connect with Jaafar: https://www.instagram.com/podnotfromhere/ https://twitter.com/JaafarrIssa https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaafar-issa-8046a419b/v 0:00 Intro 1:27 Who is Sophia & born deaf 12:56 Teaching herself to speak by feeling vibrations 20:08 The teacher who abused her, and the years she couldn't tell anyone 26:47 "Why me?" and belonging to neither world 37:33 60 rejections and the job that wouldn't promote her 41:31 The college professor who humiliated her 45:57 Cancer and divorce on the same day 53:54 Her lowest point, and what pulled her back 1:03:22 A sixth sense, and the excuse she can't stand 1:14:17 What she'd tell the little girl on the hill

    1시간 23분
  3. Cheating, Porn, and the Secrets We Keep From Our Partners: What Betrayal Really Is

    6월 14일

    Cheating, Porn, and the Secrets We Keep From Our Partners: What Betrayal Really Is

    Most marriages don't fall apart over one big betrayal, they unravel quietly, with two people blaming each other instead of the bond between them. In this episode of Not From Here, couples therapist Hamed Fatahian breaks down attachment, betrayal, intimacy, and what it actually takes to repair a marriage. We get into: * How childhood attachment shapes the way you love, trust, and fight with your partner * The negative cycle every couple gets stuck in (and how to break it) * What actually counts as cheating (it's not what you think) * Why men cheat more than women, and how affairs really start * Pornography in marriage and the expectations it creates * Whether a relationship can survive an affair and why forgiveness comes last * Why couples drift apart after kids, and how to reconnect * The two minutes a day that can save a marriage Hamed Fatahian is a licensed marriage & family therapist certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy, with over a decade helping couples across cultures and faiths. Sponsors: 🏠Venture Title Agency: https://vtclosings.com/ ☕️ Detroit Perk Coffee: https://detroitperk.com/ Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/detroit... ⚖️ Hall Makled: https://www.hallmakled.com/ +1 (313) 788-8888 🏠Venture Title Agency: https://vtclosings.com/ Connect with Hamed: https://www.instagram.com/hfatahianmft/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/hfatahiantehran/ Connect with Jaafar: https://www.instagram.com/podnotfromhere/ https://twitter.com/JaafarrIssa https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaafar-issa-8046a419b/v 00:00 Intro 02:08 Why your whole life runs on relationships 07:09 What attachment really is and how childhood forms it 20:29 How your childhood shows up in your marriage 22:38 The cycle every couple gets stuck in 33:13 What actually counts as cheating 44:36 You're not the problem, your relationship is 50:53 Why couples fight about the same thing forever 59:10 The soulmate myth & why marriage is only step one 1:03:33 Can a marriage survive an affair? 1:12:50 Why men cheat more than women 1:17:46 The truth about porn in marriage 1:26:12 The spouse who won't open up 1:32:43 Two minutes a day that save a marriage 1:35:51 When the baby comes and the marriage "dies" 1:44:22 The biggest takeaways 1:52:31 A therapist who goes to therapy

    1시간 55분
  4. The Unexpected Rise Of Qahwah House & The Plant That is Destroying Yemenis | Ibrahim Alhasbani

    5월 25일

    The Unexpected Rise Of Qahwah House & The Plant That is Destroying Yemenis | Ibrahim Alhasbani

    Ibrahim Alhasbani is the founder of Qahwah House, the first Yemeni coffee shop in America and the brand that put Yemeni coffee on the global map. His family has been growing coffee in the mountains of Yemen for eight generations, and in this conversation he breaks down why Yemen is the real birthplace of coffee and what building Qahwah House looked like when nobody believed in the idea. We also get into the harder stuff, the plant destroying the Yemeni community that nobody wants to talk about, and what it's going to take to save the next generation. Sponsors: 🏠Venture Title Agency: https://vtclosings.com/ ☕️ Detroit Perk Coffee: https://detroitperk.com/ Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/detroit... ⚖️ Hall Makled: https://www.hallmakled.com/ +1 (313) 788-8888 Connect with Ibrahim: https://www.instagram.com/ibrahimalhasbani/ Connect with Jaafar: https://www.instagram.com/podnotfromhere/ https://twitter.com/JaafarrIssa https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaafar-issa-8046a419b/v 00:00 — Intro 05:50 — Yemen, the Birthplace of Coffee 11:35 — Why He Took It Personal 18:37 — Ad 19:56 — Nobody Believed in the Idea 29:31 — What Makes Yemeni Coffee Different 33:52 — Inside the Process 43:30 — When Everyone Started Copying Him 50:57 — Khat: The Plant Killing Yemen 1:08:13 — Saving the Next Generation 1:15:05 — Ad 1:15:46 — A Message to Young Yemenis 1:28:09 — If Coffee Disappeared Tomorrow 1:34:57 — Building a Hundred-Year Company 1:36:55 — Losing His Mother

    1시간 49분
  5. What Retatrutide Actually Does to Your Body & The Harsh Truth Behind The New Weight Loss Era

    5월 18일

    What Retatrutide Actually Does to Your Body & The Harsh Truth Behind The New Weight Loss Era

    Everyone's on it. Your friend, your coworker, the guy at your gym, the influencer in your feed. Peptides, retatrutide, TRT, it's the most recommended thing in 2026. But nobody's telling you what happens next. Doctor Mike Eldirani is a board-certified physician who's spent over a decade in this space, and what he's seeing inside his clinic doesn't match what's being sold to you online. In this conversation, he breaks down what these drugs actually do, who they're for, who's getting hurt, and what's coming next. What we cover: * Why retatrutide could be the most powerful drug to ever hit the market * The peptides blowing up online and where they're really coming from * The patients walking into IVF clinics with zero sperm count * Why he refuses to put anyone under 30 on TRT * How he avoided surgery on his own body using peptide therapy * The truth about Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound * What shredded influencers are actually injecting behind the scenes * The hidden long-term dangers nobody is studying yet If you've ever thought about taking any of this — or you know someone who has — this is the episode to send them. Sponsors: 🛏️ Detroit Furniture: https://detfurniture.com/ ☕️ Detroit Perk Coffee: https://detroitperk.com/ Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/detroit... ⚖️ Hall Makled: https://www.hallmakled.com/ +1 (313) 788-8888 Connect with Dr. Mike: https://www.instagram.com/mike.eldirani/ Connect with Jaafar: https://www.instagram.com/podnotfromhere/ https://twitter.com/JaafarrIssa https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaafar-issa-8046a419b/v 00:00 – Intro 01:41 – Where the Peptide Craze Actually Started 05:23 – The Wolverine Stack and the Peptides Blowing Up Online 08:55 – How Doctor Mike Avoided Surgery on His Own Body 13:18 – Why He Tells Young Guys No 26:30 – Powder From China, Syringes From Amazon, and the COVID Hypocrisy 31:30 – Why 2026 Looks Nothing Like 2016 37:20 – GLP-1s Explained: Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound 42:40 – Retatrutide and the Drug That Could Change Everything 44:50 – The Quick Fix Problem and What Happens When You Stop 49:40 – The Truth About TRT and Who Actually Needs It 55:40 – The Zero Sperm Count Conversation 58:45 – Natural Ways to Boost Testosterone 1:02:15 – Fight Medicine, Jiu-Jitsu, and What Losing Teaches You 1:11:15 – Who's Really Winning From the Peptide Boom 1:13:10 – FOMO, Comparison, and the Lie of the Shredded Influencer

    1시간 21분
  6. Yaza Founder: I Had No Money, No Network, No Plan & Built The #1 Labneh In Whole Foods Nationwide!

    5월 11일

    Yaza Founder: I Had No Money, No Network, No Plan & Built The #1 Labneh In Whole Foods Nationwide!

    Karim Khalil is the founder of Yaza Foods, the #1 selling labneh in Whole Foods nationwide. His apartment in Beirut was destroyed in the Beirut port explosion. He moved to the US with what he had left, knew no one, and started building a Lebanese food brand in a country that had no idea what labneh was. In this episode, we get into: — Why he picked labneh — Why it's technically illegal to strain labneh in the US — The 500-store Whole Foods shipment he threw away — Losing his mother during the biggest growth year of his life — Why money was never the motivation — A blind taste test with four labneh brands where I made him guess his own A conversation about food, identity, immigration, and what it costs to actually be the best at one specific thing. Sponsors: 🏠Venture Title Agency: https://vtclosings.com/ ☕️ Detroit Perk Coffee: https://detroitperk.com/ Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/detroit... ⚖️ Hall Makled: https://www.hallmakled.com/ +1 (313) 788-8888 Connect with Karim: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-karim-khalil-8b615b185/ https://www.instagram.com/karimkhalil1/ https://www.instagram.com/yaza.foods/ Connect with Jaafar: https://www.instagram.com/podnotfromhere/ https://twitter.com/JaafarrIssa https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaafar-issa-8046a419b/v 00:00 - Intro 01:28 - Karim’s journey around the world 04:13 - August 4th, 2020: The Day Beirut Exploded 09:03 - Why Labneh 13:12 - Ad Break 14:15 - Why Labneh (continued) 8:55 - "$0 in Your Pocket and a Map of the World" 20:17 - What "Outworking Everyone" Actually Looks Like Day to Day 27:23 - The Production Failures That Almost Killed Yaza 34:36 - When He Knew the Product Would Actually Work 42:32 - The Dark Side of Building a CPG Brand 46:23 - Where the Name "Yaza" Came From 50:17 - "This Isn't Even Lebanese" — The Pushback He Gets 51:43 - Ad Break 52:22 - Blind Labneh Taste Test 59:29 - The Best Advice Karim Gives Every Founder Who Reaches Out 01:10:45 - The Trap of Comparing Yourself to Everyone Else 01:12:15 - The Bucket List That Matters More Than Whole Foods 01:13:36 - Losing His Mother While Building the Company

    1시간 19분
  7. Clinical Psychologist Reveals What 1.3 Million Displaced People Are Actually Going Through

    5월 3일

    Clinical Psychologist Reveals What 1.3 Million Displaced People Are Actually Going Through

    1.3 million people in Lebanon are displaced right now. This episode is about what that actually does to a person. I sat down with Hassan Koubayssi, a licensed clinical psychologist who spent the war dispatching teams of psychologists into Lebanon's shelters. We get into why displacement is trauma by itself. Why people in shelters started unraveling over things that had nothing to do with the war. What really happens inside those shelters when structure breaks down. And what no one tells displaced people about going home. If you're carrying this from near or far, this one is for you. Connect with Hassan: https://www.instagram.com/hassan_kob/ Connect with Jaafar: https://www.instagram.com/podnotfromhere/ https://twitter.com/JaafarrIssa https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaafar-issa-8046a419b/v Sponsors: 🛏️ Detroit Furniture: https://detfurniture.com/ ☕️ Detroit Perk Coffee: https://detroitperk.com/ Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/detroit... ⚖️ Hall Makled: https://www.hallmakled.com/ +1 (313) 788-8888 0:00 Intro 1:30 Why displacement is trauma by itself 6:22 Forced displacement vs. choosing to leave 9:30 The rupture in your personal story 11:31 Ads 12:29 The threshold model: when everything explodes at once 18:30 Why symptoms appear out of nowhere 22:45 When shelters re-traumatize 26:00 Week one vs. month one vs. year one 29:20 Can people return to who they were before? 35:40 The on-and-off switch of displacement 38:08 Ads 38:46 Stabilization, not therapy 44:30 Why children remember everything 47:30 Faith, anger, and the people who reject everything 51:30 What happens when the war ends and people go home 54:00 Society-wide effects of accumulated trauma 56:30 Hassan's advice to anyone displaced right now 1:00:00 Why families fight more in displacement 1:03:30 How this work affects Hassan personally

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